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Birds of the Northern Forest
by Lansdowne, J.F. (illustrator) and John A. Livingston (author)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966). Folio; original blue cloth with gilt grosbeak icon on upper board, very slightly bumped at one corner; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper a little worn at head and tail of spine; slight tape stains to endpapers and flaps of dustwrapper; signed by previous owner (renowned ornithologist Gordon Maclean) on half-title page, with his discreet hand-stamp here and on the front free endpaper; pp. 247, incl. index; 56 beautiful colour plates of Lansdowne bird paintings, with rough sketches of each of the species. Very good condition. "James Fenwick Lansdowne of Victoria, British Columbia, is one of the leading bird artists of his generation. Still under thirty, he has produced some of the finest portraits ever made of North American birds. Scientifically accurate, they are also works of art: original in concept, imaginative in treatment, full of action and life. Now for the first time Lansdowne's bird paintings are made available in superb full-color reproductions with accompanying text by the well-known ornithologist and former Executive Director of the Audubon Society of Canada, John A. Livingston." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
(ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1778
- Title
- Birds of the Northern Forest
- Author
- Lansdowne, J.F. (illustrator) and John A. Livingston (author)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966)
- Keywords
- Birds. Ornithology. James Fenwick Lansdowne. Art. Canada. United States Birds
- Bookseller catalogs
- Birds;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Gilt
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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- Cloth
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